Signatures of Higgs bosons in the top quark decay channel at hadron colliders

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Bernreuther, W [1 ]
Flesch, M [1 ]
Haberl, P [1 ]
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[1] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Theoret Phys, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1998年 / 58卷 / 11期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.58.114031
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We analyze some signatures of neutral Higgs bosons, produced in high energy proton-(anti)proton collisions, which decay primarily to top quarks. This channel is clouded by a large irreducible tt background. We investigate the t (t) over bar invariant-mass distribution in the lepton + jets decay mode of It and a ti spin-spin correlation in the dilepton decay mode. At the CERN LHC such Higgs bosons can be detected in the tt invariant-mass spectrum, and the spin-spin correlation studied by us is also sensitive to such a Higgs boson if this particle has a mass below 500 GeV. [S0556-2821(98)06523-0].
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